jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (05/04/88)
OK, you hackers out there, has anybody written a PostScript interpreter for the Atari 8-bitters? How about a TeX package and software to print .DVI files? Probably this sort of technology requires too much memory and computing horsepower for the 8-bitters, but they continue to surprise me, so I thought I'd ask anyway! (I believe all of the above IS available for the ST.) -John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Dave Goldblatt) (05/05/88)
From article <8805041527.AA02514@mitre-bedford.ARPA>, by jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA: > OK, you hackers out there, has anybody written a PostScript interpreter for > the Atari 8-bitters? How about a TeX package and software to print .DVI > files? > > Probably this sort of technology requires too much memory and computing > horsepower for the 8-bitters, but they continue to surprise me, so I thought > I'd ask anyway! (I believe all of the above IS available for the ST.) Unfortunately, I doubt you'll see it soon. Most people wouldn't want to wait 2-6 months for an image to be developed, and in 320x192 resolution.. :-) The PS interpreter I have for Sun 3/50s takes 5 minutes to display a decent sized graphics file.. :-( To print DVI files requires you have access to fonts. Fonts require megabytes and megabytes of disk storage. Plus lots and lots of numerical computations. Unfortunately. :-( Still like my 1980-edition 800 tho' ! -dg- -- Internet: dave@sun.soe.clarkson.edu or: dave@clutx.clarkson.edu BITNET: dave@CLUTX.Bitnet uucp: {rpics, gould}!clutx!dave Matrix: Dave Goldblatt @ 1:260/360 ICBM: Why do you want to know? :-)